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Open any health magazine and you will read about the virtues of vigorous sports, working out in the gym, running, mountain biking, all that sweating and panting is enough to put anyone off!
So if you don’t want to spend a fortune looking trendy at the local gym with the latest ipod glued to your ears, scare yourself witless on a mountian bike or try and keep up with a fast paced exercise class, how do you keep fit?
Latest recommedations say we need 30 minutes activity a day...not much really. This doesn’t have to be high burn aerobics but it is more than browsing round your favourite shoe shop!
Walking is your answer, it raises the heart rate, increases bone density, increases lung capacity, gets the joints working and lowers blood pressure, there are so many benefits and it can be such a pleasure. Walking is a well respected form of exercising for people of all ages and abilities that the NHS recommends.
All you need to get started is a comfy pair of shoes and at this time of year layered clothing and a waterproof coat. You don’t need to go for the full 30 minutes, you start where are able to and build up. From puffing and panting to reach the newsagents, in only a short space of time you WILL notice a difference. You won’t be out of breath, you will be able to pick up the pace and cover more ground and you probably won’t even come back looking all red in the face!
You don’t have to head for the hills in gortex boots and fleecy jackets, try walking round your local park, or even a brisk walk down the high street in your lunch break, just don’t be distracted by the shop windows. For weekends, get a group of friends togther and plan to meet for a country walk. If you have walked far enough you may even deserve a pub lunch at the end of your walk.
If you think you havn’t got the time, try our following tips on building a walk into your day to day routune:
· Think before you drive less than a mile - walk to the local shop
· Get off the bus a stop earlier
· Walk to work if it is close enough
· Park the car at the back of the supermarket car park
· Take the stairs instead of the lift
· Enjoy a walking lunch - walk to the park and eat your sandwiches
· Take the dog for a walk or borrow a friend's dog
· Walk the children to school
· If you have pre-scholl children who still ride in the pushcahir, after breakfast strap them in and take yourself off for a walk. Pushing teh kids around loaded up with nappies, wipes, and emergency snaks and dinks will soon get the Christmas calories burnt off!
The park makes a greta outdoors gym, flat level sufaces for wakling or even jogging, benches for sit ups and tricept dips and if you are brave enoughand no one is wathcing, any type of climbing frame is great to practise pull ups on.
Very soon, your friends will want to know your secret of glowing skin and your shrinking waistline, and it will be all down to putting one foot in front of the other in the fresh air. Go on give it a try you never know; you may even enjoy it!
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